(AN, Okay, so I'm getting a lot of reads, but barely any reviews. Though I really would like to thank fireflight33 for being my first reviewer and motivating me to keep writing. I'm glad you guys are reading, but just let me know how I'm doing, if you didn't like it, or what. Oh, and Moving Mountains, you are absolutely correct! That's exactly why Starfire and Raven had their…argument I guess you would have to say. I'm so glad that you realized why they were fighting. I don't have anything against Star at all, btw, I think she's a great character. Anyways, on with the story! psst, btw, I did a transition poem, it doesn't have anything to do with the story, I just thought it would work great as a transition to another part of the story, correct me if I thought wrong)
Third person; Incident on the Roof
Raven yelled in pain, her eyes opening wide, though she couldn't see the world around her, only the images that were assaulting her mind. The moon hung high above, full, but not bright enough to illuminate the dense forest surrounding her, growls emitted from the depths of the shadows. The scene changed. A bird circled high above the ruins of the abandoned city, the sun had just set, and the sky was blood red. Again, a new scene filled her mind's eye.
Doors flew by on either side of the dark corridor, until an open one appeared to her right. She looked into see a man kneeling in in the middle of a vast room that seemed to go on forever, his head down.
"You have failed us," a voice echoed through the room, but she could not see where it had come from.
"No, no! I served your purposes, and if you wish I will continue to serve you!" he yelled in his defense.
"You let the demon touch you, and attack your soul," the bodiless voice said.
"I was dead in the first place!" the man yelled, his voice edging closer and closer to panic. She noticed how the man sounded like he was speaking through a…a gas mask.
"Yes, but now you are beyond dead. We can no longer give you what you have asked for, and you are useless to us now anyways. Your torn soul belongs to the girl's father now, and we shall not stand in the way of what is Trigon the Terrible's."
"No! NO!" the man started to scream, making her flinch. A black pit opened momentarily beneath the man, and he fell to it's flaming depths. She fell to her knees in pain, clutching her head. She gasped and opened her four red eyes.
Her vision suddenly returned to the tower, and she found her self curled into the fetal position, her hands clamped onto her head. Her eyes were swimming in excess water. As they began to adjust to the mid-day light she noticed she was not alone. Robin was on one knee in front of her. The look on his face was concerned, but some other emotion lurked not to far under the surface, but Raven was in no mind to try and figure out what it was.
"He was working for someone else," she gasped out, releasing her head.
"Who was working for someone else?" Robin asked.
"The…the man with the gas mask," she said, her eye's still glistening from the previous onslaught of visions. She sat up then.
"Who was he working for?" Robin asked, going into detective-mode.
"I don't know, I couldn't see anyone else, I just heard them talk," and she continued to tell him the main part of her vision.
"Is that everything you saw?"
"No, I saw a couple of other random things, but they're irrelevant."
"What are we to make of this?" Starfire asked, her arms crossed, deep worry marring her face. Raven hadn't noticed she was there until now.
"I'm not sure Star," Raven said. Starfire nodded and headed back downstairs, presumably to tell the others what had happened. Raven looked back to Robin, who held his hand out to her. She grasped it and he pulled her up from the ground. "Robin…I'm scared," she whispered, not letting go of his hand. His eyes widened in surprise. "Where ever those visions came from, they weren't of my abilities. Somebody placed them there, and to get into my mind at all without sustaining serious injury is frightening enough, but for them to get as far as they did without dying is utterly terrifying," she told him. He nodded and squeezed her hand gently.
"Who ever they are, we will face them, and they will fall," he assured her. "I mean, come on, they can't be more powerful than Trigon, right?" he said with a smirk. Raven was by no means reassured…but in her stomach, she felt the same odd, fluttering sensation as this morning. She looked to the ground, wondering what this feeling was. Upon seeing her look away Robin was under the impression that she didn't believe him, and pulled her chin around to make him face her, using his free hand. "Raven, I promise you, I won't let anything happen to you," she looked at him, and could almost see his eyes blazing with sincerity and confidence. Blood rushed to her cheeks at the intensity of his gaze.
"It's not me I'm worried about, Robin. It's the rest of the team…and you," she whispered the end. His jaw dropped and his eyes widened. He dropped his hand from underneath her chin. She looked away, embarrassed, realizing now what she had felt this morning and moments ago. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said anything," she mumbled and dropped his hand. She left him stunned on the roof of the tower. She walked all the way to her room, trying to clear her head. 'I need to meditate…now.' She entered her room and sat in the middle of her bed, cross leg. Closing her eyes and repeating her mantra in her head, she floated a few feet above her bed for several minutes. 'What has been going on lately?' she thought. 'These last two days my emotions have been going out of control. There's way to much going on right now for that nonsense. And to throw in a stupid crush on my leader, this is not the time!'she yelled at her emotions…She opened her eyes back up, in absolute disbelief.
"I like Robin?" she asked aloud. "What? Where did that come from?" she shook her head and continued meditating.
* * *
Day burns down to night,
Burns the edge of my soul.
In the night I break into sparks of suns
And become fires in a dust of bones
Night knifes
My breath swallows whole my tongue
Turn back
Reverse return
In the night I see the real
Concealed in the day's bright lie
Eyes stitched shut
White teeth smile
Sleep walks and talks
And feet mark time of day
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Third person; That Night
Raven tossed and turned in her bed, strange images appearing in her dreams. The door on the other end of the room opened quietly and a figure stood there, a light in the hallway behind him casting all of his features in shadow. The figure went to take a step forward but stopped, looking to the left of the girl's bed. The figures arm flung out in front of him, and a sheer noise echoed through the room, as something whizzed through the air, followed shortly by a thud. The girl sat straight up in bed, the lights of her bedroom came on then. She looked around wildly, confused by the entire situation.
"Robin?" she asked sleepily, rubbing her eyes. "What's the matter?"
"I heard you talking in your sleep and I came to check and see if you were okay, but I thought I saw something move by your bed, so I threw a bird-a-rang at it," and sure enough, a bird-a-rang protruded from the wall above her bedside table, next to her giant circle mirror. She stood up, now back in her usual blue, to pull the weapon from the wall. She closed it and held it in her hands, facing away from the boy wonder, who had walked into the room silently and was now standing mere feet from her. He placed a hand on her shoulder, sensing her balled up emotions. She turned back to him. Seeing the look of worry on his face, she dropped the bird-a-rang and threw her arms around his shoulders. He hugged her tightly back. The empath sensed something then. Robin pulled back slightly and looked her in the eyes.
"Robin…" she said quietly. He leaned his face forward, his eyes closing. His lips gently brushed against hers, her eyes closed and she gasped slightly, sending a shudder down his spine. She kissed him back then, and he pulled her even tighter to him. The sound of rushing water came from somewhere, but neither of them noticed. They remained like this for a few moments, until the rushing water sound morphed into the sound of hail hitting the window. Raven broke apart from him and looked out the window. There were numerous water spouts coming up from the bay, and water droplets were flying from them, turning to ice as they broke away from the main spout. As she watched, the spouts sank back into the water. Robin started to chuckle, and she turned back to him. He rested his forehead on hers, she looked up at his mask.
"Robin, what are we doing?" she asked.
"What we should be doing, Raven. We're teenagers. This is what teenagers do," he said matter-of-factly. She pulled her head away from his.
"But we are not normal teenagers, Robin. We're part of a super powered team that stops bad guys…and right now really isn't the time for…this," she said. The smile left his face.
"Now is just as good a time as any. We'll always be fighting bad guys, Raven. It's what we do. That doesn't mean we can't…we can't have relationships," he said, his eyes darting to the window. She giggled. He looked back at her, his brows drawn together.
"You're embarrassed," she giggled again.
"Shouldn't you be arguing my side and me yours anyways?" he laughed. They both shook with laughter for a moment, but she stopped suddenly.
"I just wish that I could…never mind," she said closing her eyes and shaking her head.
"What?" he asked. She looked back up at him.
"It's just…I've never seen your eyes."
"Oh…" the air rushed from his lungs and he wasn't exactly sure what to say. Slowly he reached to the side of his face, pinching the edge of the mask. Raven gasped, seeing what he was about to do. Her hand flashed up to his.
"Robin, you don't hav-"
"No, it's not a big deal," he said.
"Then let me," she smiled. He smirked back and dropped his hand. She slowly pulled the mask away from his eyes. "They're so-"
"Unnerving?" he asked. She stared up into his big, bright blue eyes.
"No. Gorgeous…" she trailed off. He looked over at her clock then.
"It's late. You should go back to bed," he told her. She looked at the clock then looked back at him. In the short time she had looked away, he had managed to get his mask back on. She smirked at him.
"You're right."
"I often am," he said. She chuckled and released him.
"Good night, Boy Wonder," he grimaced at his old nickname.
"Sleep well," he whispered as he lightly kissed her forehead. The large mirror next to them cracked. He chuckled and left the room. She fell back down onto her bed and glanced over at the broken mirror, which doubled as an inter-dimensional portal. She knew better than to try and fix. Turning over to face the window of her bedroom, a content smile rested on her lips and she drifted off to sleep. The smile, however, slipped off her face quickly as her subconscious was filled with dreams of chaotic demons.
* * *
The next day carried on quietly. There were no crimes in the city, as half of it had been destroyed during their battle with Terra. It was rumored that a certain bachelor billionaire was simply throwing cash and construction crews into rebuilding effort.
In the earlier afternoon the Titans were all gathered in the living room, watching the news.
"Very early this morning, several water spouts were seen in the Jump City Bay," It went to a helicopter camera to the water spouts, the tower in the background. There was only one light on in the tower and Beast Boy looked over at Raven.
"What were you doing up so late?" he asked incredulously.
"Uhm…I was looking at the water spouts…" she lied, her cheeks flushed. He stared at her in disbelief. She then back to the T.V, the woman was just finishing up her story about the spouts.
"…our meteorologist says that it was a weather anomaly, and he is unable to explain where the spouts came from. In other news, building crews have started day two of the reconstruction of the down town metro area…" Raven got up from the couch and went back up to the roof. She stood there, looking at the half demolished skyline of Jump City. The days were getting cooler as they progressed further into fall, the wind was even stronger today than it had been the morning of her nightmare. The door to roof opened and Raven didn't turn to see who it was. A hand grasped hers. Neither of them said a thing.
"What do you think is happening?" she asked Robin after a few minutes of silence.
"Shouldn't I be asking you that?" he asked. She didn't say anything. He pulled her to him and she looked at him. "Stop worrying. For me, please?" he asked. He leaned in then and kissed her. She momentarily forgot about their surroundings and situations, and kissed him back. Water from the bay shot into the sky, like geysers. It began to rain down on them, soaking them to the bone.
"I do not wish to interrupt, but there is a…situation," Starfire said from the doorway to the roof.
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AN, I am SO sorry I took so long to put this up, and I was planning on it being way longer, but I was having way too much writers block. And I'm sorry it got so romantic, don't kill the messenger, as they say. I really don't like what I wrote, but I know where the story is going and I'm pretty sure the next chapter will be waaay better. Anyways, I'm going to stop making excuses for my crappyness, and bid you ado for now. Reviews are what motivate me to keep writing, btw.
